Snapshot Day 10/2/07 Data
(Salt Front RM 78.2)
RIVER MILE 145
Captain Chip Reynolds & The Half Moon & New Netherlands Museum, Corning
Preserve, Albany
Jane Platania, Rensselaer Middle School, 6-7th grade, 9 students
N42°38.966’ and W73°44.803’
Location: Rocky beach surrounded by rising forested land and small yard and driveway
Area: A path along the beach with rising forested hills and yard with house and driveway
Surrounding Land Use: Forested 70%, Beach 30%
Sampling Site: Beach area with with raprap @ north end, collected wood debris in area
Water depth: 4 ft. at low tide
River Bottom –muddy & weeds on bottom
Plants in area: 85% of water area has plants
Plants in sampling area: 100% water chestnuts
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
Physical
Air Temperature
11:45 AM
70F
1:09 PM
71F
22C
Wind Speed
7-10 knots
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
clear
Decreasing cloud all day
Pleasantly sunny, 70-75F each day, few clouds, mild wind
Water calm
Turbidity
Chlorophyll
Location noted as
RM 153
Chemical
DO
South to
North
Time
11:06 AM
Location
Tidepool #1
Color code
0.0
11:10 AM
11:15 AM
11:18 AM
11:30 AM
11:32 AM
11:37 AM
11:40 AM
Tidepool #2
Tidepool #3
Tidepool #4
Riverfront #5
Riverfront #6
Riverfront #7
Riverfront #8
0.1
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.3
0.3
0.5
(drop count kit)
pH
12:10 PM
Average 7.7
Litmus paper
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
7.8
7.6
7.8
12:16 PM
95
95
95
Average 95
Number
Caught
Species
CPUE
Seine
10:58 am
11:26 am
11:46 am
12:04 PM
12:23 PM
1:02 PM
Cm/60
secs
601.8
780.6
543
451.2
259.8
452.12 cm
426.72 cm
411.48 cm
400.05 cm
391.16 cm
370.84 cm
Cm/sec
10.03
13.01
9.05
7.52
4.33
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Knots –
(cm/sec)/50
.20
.26
.18
.15
.09
N/S Ebb/Flood/Still
S - ebb
S - ebb
S - ebb
S - ebb
S - ebb
Core 1A
10:51 AM
Edge of tide
pond
6 inch depth
Dark brown
w/roots &
organics
Fine
grained/smooth
Core 1B
10:55 AM
Edge of tide
pond
6 inch depth
Grittier than
1A
Core 1C
11:01 AM
Edge of tide
pond
6 inch depth
Core 2A
Edge of
Hudson River
18 inch depth
Edge of
Hudson River
Medium
Brown, less
organics than
1A
Medium
Brown, less
organics than
1A
Very dark
brown, siltlike,
Gritty dark
brown
Salinity
Fish Catch
Tides
Currents
Traffic
Other Items
TIDAL POND
CORE
42 39.126 N
73 44.723 W
RIVER CORE
42 38.956 N
73 44.749 W
Core 2B
A bit sandy as
well
Fine grained
More coarsely
grained
Core 2C
Core 3
24 inch depth
Edge of
Hudson River
10 inch depth
Down from (2)
outsides
floating dock
Not under
water (mud on
rock)
Rocky, (~2cm
in size varied)
Smooth, dark
brown
Very coarsely
grained